Box Butte County, NE Social Statistics

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Box butte county nebraska dp 2 profile of selected social characteristics

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Subject	Number	Percent

Population 3 years and over enrolled in school	3,384	100.0
Nursery school, preschool	211	6.2
Kindergarten	176	5.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8)	1,637	48.4
High school (grades 9-12)	966	28.5
College or graduate school	394	11.6

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over	7,864	100.0
Less than 9th grade	403	5.1
9th to 12th grade, no diploma	535	6.8
High school graduate (includes equivalency)	2,947	37.5
Some college, no degree	2,269	28.9
Associate degree	508	6.5
Bachelor's degree	915	11.6
Graduate or professional degree	287	3.6

Percent high school graduate or higher	88.1	(X)
Percent bachelor's degree or higher	15.3	(X)

MARITAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over	9,439	100.0
Never married	1,844	19.5
Now married, except separated	5,767	61.1
Separated	104	1.1
Widowed	727	7.7
Female	596	6.3
Divorced	997	10.6
Female	489	5.2

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years	132	100.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren	66	50.0

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over	8,732	100.0
Civilian veterans	1,255	14.4

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years	3,077	100.0
With a disability	241	7.8

Population 21 to 64 years	6,515	100.0
With a disability	965	14.8
Percent employed	54.2	(X)
No disability	5,550	85.2
Percent employed	81.3	(X)

Population 65 years and over	1,593	100.0
With a disability	565	35.5

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over	11,370	100.0
Same house in 1995	6,641	58.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995	4,629	40.7
Same county	2,755	24.2
Different county	1,874	16.5
Same state	765	6.7
Different state	1,109	9.8
Elsewhere in 1995	100	0.9

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population	12,158	100.0
Native	11,780	96.9
Born in United States	11,750	96.6
State of residence	8,140	67.0
Different state	3,610	29.7
Born outside United States	30	0.2
Foreign born	378	3.1
Entered 1990 to March 2000	168	1.4
Naturalized citizen	167	1.4
Not a citizen	211	1.7

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea)	378	100.0
Europe	52	13.8
Asia	42	11.1
Africa	0	0.0
Oceania	0	0.0
Latin America	280	74.1
Northern America	4	1.1

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over	11,370	100.0
English only	10,548	92.8
Language other than English	822	7.2
Speak English less than 'very well	236	2.1
Spanish	614	5.4
Speak English less than "very well"	208	1.8
Other Indo-European languages	113	1.0
Speak English less than "very well"	5	0.0
Asian and Pacific Island languages	47	0.4
Speak English less than "very well"	23	0.2

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population	12,158	100.0
Total ancestries reported	13,665	112.4
Arab	40	0.3
Czech¹	503	4.1
Danish	308	2.5
Dutch	279	2.3
English	1,330	10.9
French (except Basque)¹	374	3.1
French Canadian¹	40	0.3
German	4,421	36.4
Greek	118	1.0
Hungarian	18	0.1
Irish¹	1,706	14.0
Italian	204	1.7
Lithuanian	6	0.0
Norwegian	439	3.6
Polish	257	2.1
Portuguese	0	0.0
Russian	131	1.1
Scotch-Irish	246	2.0
Scottish	143	1.2
Slovak	0	0.0
Subsaharan African	2	0.0
Swedish	618	5.1
Swiss	59	0.5
Ukrainian	0	0.0
United States or American	509	4.2
Welsh	32	0.3
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)	9	0.1
Other ancestries	1,873	15.4

(X) Not applicable.
¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrices P18, P19, P21, P22, P24, P36, P37, P39, P42, PCT8, PCT16, PCT17, and PCT19

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